Hacker News: david38

New comment by david38 in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

david38 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:47:27 +0000

You don’t have to be neurodivergent. Weed is bad. Not going to jail is one thing, actively pushing it is another

New comment by david38 in "Kindle users in uproar over update rendering oldest devices virtually unusable"

david38 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:42:25 +0000

Just as well. Look at the contracts. Ebooks are draining our libraries of funds. It’s so much better for the library to borrow a physical book

New comment by david38 in "Programming Used to Be Free"

david38 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:40:22 +0000

Programming is freer, faster, more shared, and has more corporate sponsorship than ever before.

You think it was always this easy to find high quality docs and packages written by others for free?

New comment by david38 in "SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives"

david38 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:02:42 +0000

The estimated innocent population is around 9%. A far cry from the majority. This is just populist trash.

Now if you want to make a majority claim about those incarcerated being incarcerated for something which a rich person would go free, that’s something else

New comment by david38 in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

david38 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:24:39 +0000

Youtube

New comment by david38 in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

david38 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 02:49:56 +0000

Norway accepts they are a homogeneous country. Americans lose their minds at the thought

New comment by david38 in "Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors"

david38 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 02:47:09 +0000

Seems reasonable, but maybe not exactly a weapon. It is used to subdue someone, but not as a threat. Should be a parallel class.

And while the intended assault is a sexual assault, a date rape drug still incapacitates you, which easily classifies as kidnapping, unlawful detainment, etc.

New comment by david38 in "USDA head says 'everyone' on SNAP will now have to reapply"

david38 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:01:32 +0000

Reform is needed, yes, but this is a stupid comment.

By your own argument 75% of SNAP is spent on normal food, mostly by people who need it

New comment by david38 in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

david38 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:58:32 +0000

GDP is a meaningless measure for all but governments and the very elite.

How about some metrics on issue that led to Brexit?

New comment by david38 in "Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally?"

david38 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:16:15 +0000

Take them to small claims court. You would win

New comment by david38 in "Cursor: Past, Present, and Future"

david38 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:37:46 +0000

$300k most def too high

New comment by david38 in "Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare"

david38 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:19:36 +0000

This. Don’t be so sensitive, just say to call you.

I took my daughter to appointments and as soon as I started asking meaningful questions, doctors immediately switched to assuming I was the one to talk to.

When you act like you know what’s going on, act like you’re on top of it, I’ve never once had a doctor assume I was just babysitting. This was true in the Midwest and California.

New comment by david38 in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

david38 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:17:36 +0000

Standard engineering. You fix the thing that breaks the system first. Fix that, the next bug appears. Rinse, repeat.

You don’t think we have been doing this already? Car safety improved, general violence, death by food poisoning, etc. Now we have contacts, knee replacement surgery, meniscus surgery, widespread information on fitness for the elderly, etc.

You have many specialized fields slowly improving. The top focus changes as the previous top problems get solutions.

New comment by david38 in "Java 25 officially released"

david38 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:09:00 +0000

Except he didn’t say “for ten years” but “in ten years” referring to the extreme length of time companies take to upgrade

New comment by david38 in "The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister"

david38 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:03:22 +0000

Most other things pay a lot less or require many years of expensive schooling

New comment by david38 in "Defense.gov Now Redirects to War.gov"

david38 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:44:53 +0000

This it how it used to me.

We had a War Department. Rebranding to Defense was a PR move to hide what was really happening.

This is a good thing as it’s far more truthful.

New comment by david38 in "A sunscreen scandal shocking Australia"

david38 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:51:23 +0000

You’re kidding? You want millions of people to apply something that gets absorbed into the skin without testing it for side effects?

New comment by david38 in "The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries"

david38 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:09:55 +0000

It didn’t ruin his life. Having an unstable childhood due to a mentally ill mother and later developing paranoid schizophrenia and a drug addiction (common with schizophrenia) is what ruined his life.

New comment by david38 in "Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice"

david38 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:58:55 +0000

Except they didn’t. A proper municipality decision would have been discussed publicly with advance notice. This is like the board of directors of Toyota deciding to stop selling to the US without advance notice without input from the shareholders, the US, or advance notice.

It is 100% disingenuous. In no municipality in America is the source of water not considered a long term source where change comes with months of notice. In no municipality is said change executed in a meeting without prior notice to the public with public commenting allowed.

New comment by david38 in "It is worth it to buy the fast CPU"

david38 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:49:04 +0000

No doubt you mean well. In some cases it’s obvious- low memory machine can’t handle some docket setup, etc.

In reality, you can’t even predict time to project completion accurately. Rarely is a fast computer a “time saver”.

Either it’s a binary “can this run that” or a work environment thing “will the dev get frustrated knowing he has to wait an extra 10 minutes a day when a measly $1k would make this go away”